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beetle, with a few sjiots of yellow pul)esceiice on the elytni. It is rare 

 aud very local, and occurs iu aiul about willows and sallows. It is 

 recorded from Hastiut^s, Bath, Jiristol, liourncniouth aud Scotland ; 

 of tliese, 1 should say that the Hastings specimen was an importation. 

 I do not think it can ever have been established at Bath, as the late 

 Dr, Gillo, who lived there, aud was a very good collector, never found 

 it, and was of o{)inion it did not occur there. Mr. E. A. Waterhouse 

 took a sjjecinieu in Scotland, near Ilannoch, aud 1 am informed that 

 Mr. Ship}) has taken it more recently at Clifton, but 1 should regard the 

 majority of s})ecimens in collections as importations. 



{To be continued). 



AcANTnociNUs (AsTYNOMus) ^EDiLis, LiNN., IN LoNDON. — On Sep- 

 tember 9th I picked up a male specimen of Aranthoeinns aedilis, 

 whilst crawling on a vessel recently arrived from Kussia, and lying 

 at the time in the London Docks, I am informed by Mr. Donisthorpe 

 that this insect is local in Scotland, and has a general distribution 

 over N, Europe, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Russia, etc., in pine 

 forests. He also tells me that this specimen was probably imported. — 

 E. E. Heppell, 61a, Loampit Vale, Lewisham, S.E. 



The colour development in the elytra of Trichius fasciatus, L. 

 — In the early spring I found three broad, fat, coleopterous pupsie in 

 a very rotten oak stump, in the Castell Coch woods, near Cardiff. I 

 thought they might turn out to be Sinodcndron, which is common 

 there, and put them in a glass bottle with plenty of powdered wood, 

 amid which they soon wriggled themselves into comfortable little 

 nests. Nothing happened until June, when to my astonishment one 

 day I found a fine Tricliim fasciatus in the bottle. Three imagines 

 eventually emerged successfully from the pupae, and I was fortunate 

 enough to catch one in the act. In colour the perfect insect was a pure 

 milk-white, with the wings stretched straight down longitudinally, and 

 not folded up under the elytra. Faint traces of colour began to appear 

 some hours afterwards on the elytral bands, — at first a very pale red, 

 then developing into brick-red, and finally passing from a burnt sienna 

 shade into a velvety black. This development of the colour took 

 upwards of live days, although the bottle stood on a window-sill in a 

 light and airy position. During this time the beetles were generally 

 buried amongst the wood at the side of the glass. I did not find any 

 other specimens this year, and the guelder-rose, which Tric/iius 

 generally patronises in this district, was not so prolific as usual in other 

 species. The only Longicorne of note that occurred on it was rar/n/ta 

 cfrauibifcif'oniiis, and this was common. — B. Tomlin, F.E.S., Llandaff. 



Coleoptera of the Lledr valley, — Among the divers methods 

 employed by the coleopterist for securing his prey, none prove 

 more efficacious than the examination of the drift and flotsam 

 of river Hoods, In this way beetles are discovered which evade the 

 most careful search, and the investigator often stands amazed at the 

 amount and variety of coleopterous life which the overflowing waters 

 reveal as having been inhabitants of their banks. Thus the fauna of 

 acres, if not of square miles, may be sometimes gathered together 

 into the compass of a haycock, and, as it were, n microcosm of an 



